[quote=deadzone]I never said it was a waste of time, just not a necessity, particularly in terms of professional success. If you like learning language that is great, I do too. But let’s call a spade a spade. It is a freakin hobby. If you don’t live or work in another country, you will never achieve anything close to fluency anyway. If you don’t rely on another language to conduct businees it doesn’t matter, it is NOT a necessity, it is merely a hobby or intellectual pursuit.
Here is an interesting poll question for the piggs to research. How many CEOs of fortune 500 companies are multi-lingual? How many U.S. senators and congressmen? How many US presidents throughout history?[/quote]
“Worthless” and waste of time are or are not relatively the same? I gave you the point about not being necessary on my first post on this thread.
I am not sure I agree with you that you have to leave socal to get fluent, but why are you so hung up on that? So you leave the country for a while, big deal. It is not necessary to be equal in both languages. Semi-literate monolingual people often go far. It’s not always about perfectionism or bust.
As to your poll, you seem really hung up on the bigshots.What do I care about language skills of CEO’s of F-500 companies?It also seems you are taking into consideration one word, change. How many politicians were scrambling to find hispanic nephews as trophies to parade in front of the TV with them on the campaign trail 40 years ago?
